.. for game publishers anyway. His latest title, Fable, sounded great, but Lionhead have been announcing the removal of a number of features - real time aging, having pets, etc, till the game is sounding more and more like a standard dungeon hack than the revolutionary title it was going to be... I'm a lot less excited about it than I used to be.
.. which company wants to find itself in trouble when it search engine catalogues pages with anti-government sentiment. Because, even if there's major censoring going on, some will still get caught by whatever webcrawler they end up using.
'The founders believed that 3721 was an appropriate name for the company, as 3721 is a Chinese saying that means "No matter 3 by 7 is 21, Just do it."'
I bet Nike's lawyers are getting ready to 'just do it'..
.. why so many of Shakespeare's works are called comedies just because everyone doesn't die at the end. I saw the Merchant of Venice and there wasn't a single pie-fucking scene in it. I want my money back, dammit.
If I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on a little electronic gadget, I'd like it to do more than just play MP3s. This device might get me to spend that kind of money... and I don't have to be embarrased by an Apple logo on it.
But not least of all, it'll presumably have a battery you can actually replace yourself.
.. so I'm guessing we can look forward to even more incomprehensible 'My Moto' adverts. My money's on a sheep with an afro on roller skates dancing to the birdie song in an open air club on top of a skyscraper.
.. how they'd stop it being vandalized. Presumably it's not so good to have a cop that needs protecting itself, escorting around and generally stopping people spray-painting it etc. I wonder how much dried gum this guy accumulates?
I wonder if it pushes criminals down the stairs, and subsequently says they fell? Mind you, given the lack of legs on the robot, running down stairs is a sure fire way of avoiding the robot if they ever decide to convert this from a show and tell to an ass-kicking 'bot.
.. welcome the notion of standing Liam and Noel Gallagher on Mars to play their own brand of 'I wish I was John Lennon' BritPop to the microbes. Unless they bred, in which case it might not be so good.. 'Maahs Attaahks' anyone?
.. this was my idea! You stole it from me! Right - prepare to be living on whatever you've got in the office canteen - I'm suing and freezing your account. Now.. what's the dialling code for Brussels?
'A representative for large hard drive distributor Bell Micro said: "This is NOT undocumented and we have done this in the past to load an image of the original installation of the software. When the client corrupted the o/s we had a boot floppy thatopened the unseen partition and copied it to the active or seen partition. It is a not a new feature or discovery. We use it ourselves without any qualms'
Which, having worked for a PC sales company, I can confirm is true. And certainly, while earlier models had partitions you could wipe with partition software, later PC builds had this hidden space. But the space was 1GB at most - there's no way there was the kind of 40GB plus hidden space the article claims.
This does sound suspect, but it reminds me of the trick you used to be able to do with 720 floppy disks - you could drill a hole where the hole on a 1.4MB disk would be and use it as a 1.4MB disk. Trouble was, it wouldn't retain data for very long, but it usually lasted for a day at least before the data degraded.
Or between development and release. Granted, Sony may have the clout, but don't forget there are plenty of ways to mess up when it comes to releasing a new console. The Playstation 2's line up, for example, was pretty weak when released, and if someone makes the rash decision to drop PS1+2 support from the PS3, sales will plummet (though it looks MS may already have made that mistake with X-Box 3 if rumours are to believed.)The Dreamcast, on the other hand, had a very strong line-up, great hardware, but Sega's lack of decent advertising did the console no good. I think this is rather jumping the gun.
Have you ever tried to read a long website on a handheld? Books on handhelds are not a good idea.
Also, there are some movies that wouldn't translate too well.. I'm not sure if it would work with visual films such as The Matrix Revolutions. 'Big Deus Ex machina head comes out of f**king nowhere' doesn't quite work in text form.
Back on topic slightly, it strikes me that one of the cons of having portable movies like this would be taking a film that's banned in one area to another area - who knows what UK customs would make of that uncut version of House by the Cemtetary being brought into the UK. Would they confiscate your PDA or just get you to delete it?
.. every damn other programme being reality TV. Why watch a show about someone living a life - or more often than not, staying in a big house with other z grade celebs - when you could actually stick a game in and have some level of interactivity going.
.. they're called books. Though I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of someone having written a novelisation of Kenneth Brannagh's adaption of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
.. if you want to witness a truly depressing display. There's the 'models' who really didn't think their acting career would come to being draped over a stand while hordes of sweaty-palmed gamers drool down their cleavage. There's the soul-crushingly poor 'gimmick' game stands such as 'Hooligan: Storm Across Europe', a game designed to be controversial but completely tedious to play. And the fact that the few genuinely original games will never see the light of day, being cancelled in favour of the big name no-gameplay titles. There's journos pretending to be interested in said games just in the hope of filling up a few pages. Oh, and just to cap it off, there's walking to get the cube from Olympia station, only to find yourself knee deep in discarded PR bumf. Now, that's a trade show.
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net.
Because any time any good geeks go searching for recipes (googling for 'beans AND toast') we inevitably stumble across a picture of Nigella Lawson and spend the whole evening transfixed gazing at the monitor.
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.. for game publishers anyway. His latest title, Fable, sounded great, but Lionhead have been announcing the removal of a number of features - real time aging, having pets, etc, till the game is sounding more and more like a standard dungeon hack than the revolutionary title it was going to be... I'm a lot less excited about it than I used to be.
.. which company wants to find itself in trouble when it search engine catalogues pages with anti-government sentiment. Because, even if there's major censoring going on, some will still get caught by whatever webcrawler they end up using.
I bet Nike's lawyers are getting ready to 'just do it'..
.. I get the same 'nefarious ties' feeling that I do reading about one of Scientology's front groups, eg Narconon etc.
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.. why so many of Shakespeare's works are called comedies just because everyone doesn't die at the end. I saw the Merchant of Venice and there wasn't a single pie-fucking scene in it. I want my money back, dammit.
In Soviet Russia, the stairs push the robot. Surely 'In Soviet Russia, the robot pushes the stairs down *YOU*'?
But not least of all, it'll presumably have a battery you can actually replace yourself.
.. so I'm guessing we can look forward to even more incomprehensible 'My Moto' adverts. My money's on a sheep with an afro on roller skates dancing to the birdie song in an open air club on top of a skyscraper.
.. how they'd stop it being vandalized. Presumably it's not so good to have a cop that needs protecting itself, escorting around and generally stopping people spray-painting it etc. I wonder how much dried gum this guy accumulates?
.. I mean Hong Kong. There must be something wrong there... robots coming out of anywhere *but* Japan?
I wonder if it pushes criminals down the stairs, and subsequently says they fell? Mind you, given the lack of legs on the robot, running down stairs is a sure fire way of avoiding the robot if they ever decide to convert this from a show and tell to an ass-kicking 'bot.
.. welcome the notion of standing Liam and Noel Gallagher on Mars to play their own brand of 'I wish I was John Lennon' BritPop to the microbes. Unless they bred, in which case it might not be so good.. 'Maahs Attaahks' anyone?
Damn.. there goes my 'I guess Yogi'll be going out with a bang' joke.
.. this was my idea! You stole it from me! Right - prepare to be living on whatever you've got in the office canteen - I'm suing and freezing your account. Now.. what's the dialling code for Brussels?
'A representative for large hard drive distributor Bell Micro said: "This is NOT undocumented and we have done this in the past to load an image of the original installation of the software. When the client corrupted the o/s we had a boot floppy thatopened the unseen partition and copied it to the active or seen partition. It is a not a new feature or discovery. We use it ourselves without any qualms' Which, having worked for a PC sales company, I can confirm is true. And certainly, while earlier models had partitions you could wipe with partition software, later PC builds had this hidden space. But the space was 1GB at most - there's no way there was the kind of 40GB plus hidden space the article claims.
This does sound suspect, but it reminds me of the trick you used to be able to do with 720 floppy disks - you could drill a hole where the hole on a 1.4MB disk would be and use it as a 1.4MB disk. Trouble was, it wouldn't retain data for very long, but it usually lasted for a day at least before the data degraded.
Or between development and release. Granted, Sony may have the clout, but don't forget there are plenty of ways to mess up when it comes to releasing a new console. The Playstation 2's line up, for example, was pretty weak when released, and if someone makes the rash decision to drop PS1+2 support from the PS3, sales will plummet (though it looks MS may already have made that mistake with X-Box 3 if rumours are to believed.)The Dreamcast, on the other hand, had a very strong line-up, great hardware, but Sega's lack of decent advertising did the console no good. I think this is rather jumping the gun.
Also, there are some movies that wouldn't translate too well.. I'm not sure if it would work with visual films such as The Matrix Revolutions. 'Big Deus Ex machina head comes out of f**king nowhere' doesn't quite work in text form.
Back on topic slightly, it strikes me that one of the cons of having portable movies like this would be taking a film that's banned in one area to another area - who knows what UK customs would make of that uncut version of House by the Cemtetary being brought into the UK. Would they confiscate your PDA or just get you to delete it?
.. every damn other programme being reality TV. Why watch a show about someone living a life - or more often than not, staying in a big house with other z grade celebs - when you could actually stick a game in and have some level of interactivity going.
.. they're called books. Though I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of someone having written a novelisation of Kenneth Brannagh's adaption of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
.. if you want to witness a truly depressing display. There's the 'models' who really didn't think their acting career would come to being draped over a stand while hordes of sweaty-palmed gamers drool down their cleavage. There's the soul-crushingly poor 'gimmick' game stands such as 'Hooligan: Storm Across Europe', a game designed to be controversial but completely tedious to play. And the fact that the few genuinely original games will never see the light of day, being cancelled in favour of the big name no-gameplay titles. There's journos pretending to be interested in said games just in the hope of filling up a few pages. Oh, and just to cap it off, there's walking to get the cube from Olympia station, only to find yourself knee deep in discarded PR bumf. Now, that's a trade show.
Yep, it's called working retail.
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net. Because any time any good geeks go searching for recipes (googling for 'beans AND toast') we inevitably stumble across a picture of Nigella Lawson and spend the whole evening transfixed gazing at the monitor.
After all, Bjork's been speaking it for years. And in other news, Bubba-Ho-Tep bites off Elvis's finger and falls into Mount Doom.